Yamaha has announced that they will ditch their inline-four engine for a V4 engine to keep the Fabio Quattro.
There were rumblings in the MotoGP paddock heading into the 2025 season. Fabio Quartararo’s Future with Yamaha.
The Frenchman has signed a two-year contract that runs through the 2025 and 2026 seasons, but has decided to end his long-term career at the club. Yamaha It became impossible due to the lack of performance of the M1.
In a move to convince Quattararo to stay, Yamaha decided to build a V4 engine to improve the M1’s top speed for the 2026 season.
However, Quatararo appears to have given his verdict on the 2026 Yamaha V4 engine before testing it at the Sepang test.
Yamaha moved to V4 to convince Quattro to stay
Although Yamaha struggled for performance in the 2025 season and finished last in the manufacturers’ championship, Quattroro was competitive for a few rounds.
The Frenchman claimed a Grand Prix podium and two Sprint Race podiums in 2025, as well as missing out on a win at Silverstone due to a ride altitude device failure.
With tensions running high in the Yamaha factory garage, it was decided to test the M1’s competitiveness for the Quattroro and join the rest of the grid with the V4 engine.
however, Engine footprint Quattararo reported that it was a ‘losing battle from the start’ for Yamaha as they decided not to stick with Yamaha with or without the M1’s V4 engine.
Before the Sepang test, it was reported that Quatararo agreed to join Honda. For the 2027 and 2028 MotoGP seasons.
Fabio Quattararo’s frustrations don’t just lie with the M1.
In addition, Quatararo has reportedly been frustrated not only with the Yamaha M1’s performance in recent years, but also with the Japanese manufacturer’s executives.
Quatararo is said to be ‘frustrated’ by Paolo Pavesio. Since taking over from Lynn Jarvis as the main man in the factory Yamaha garage.
In the year At the end of the 2025 MotoGP season, Quattararo revealed that he ‘doesn’t talk much with Paolo’ and prefers to talk to the important people in the garage instead.
Although Yama put all of their eggs in one basket to keep Katarao going, the writing always seems to be on the wall for the future of the Iwata-based factory.
